We have covered some pretty incredible stories and our nightly good news segments but this one Jamie this one might make your jaw drop yeah you see a man here he is getting ready to head out onto the roller skating rink and oh by the way he’s 90 years old make you a
Little nervous don’t worry because soon you’re gonna be smiling Kristen Hampton has tonight’s good news every Tuesday and Thursday night like clockwork for nine years in a row one of Skateland USA’s most regular customers shows up and shows is anything but regular when I get out on that floor I’m
Back in my seventies Jean Elliott isn’t 70 he’s 90 and if you think you’re set to see a shuffling little old man wobble out onto the floor you just get up it and go with it you better think again because I skate down to everyone it smiles at me I don’t have something
Something wrong with me what but they smile Jean doesn’t seem to understand what all the fuss is about neither do the folks that run the skating rink you know we’re used to seeing him week after week after week what does register is an elderly man on eight wheels loving every minute I love
Meeting people and talking with people every week we can’t leave here knowing a new person they’ll come over everybody’s got a story but nobody’s got a story like jeans it wasn’t even a year ago a severe case of shingles left him fighting for his life so six weeks in a
Nursing home for two months in a wheelchair couple months later I knew I had to get back in the world so he did what any 90 year old does and took up his rehabilitation at the roller skating rink we might as well call out the elephant
In the rink how can this guy be certain he won’t take a tumble he’s not but he’s got a pretty good policy ensuring you don’t need to worry about knocking on wood they were married for 57 years before she passed and it should come as no surprise they met at a skating rink
So even though he comes by himself he doesn’t skate alone this thing I think about its falling I’m having too much fun rollerskating in Hickory with the good news Kristin Hampton WBTV on your side goodness look at him go really good it’s impressive it really is
Most of us are thinking can we do that no no well yeah the whole story was right with the twist at the end yeah never skating alone mmm really great stuff we are always looking for more good news stories to tell every day here in the five o’clock hour we have one WB
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